>> harris: the ex-campaign for trump had a meltdown all over tv today. here's dana. >> dana: fox news alert. the president about to welcome the swedish prime minister. the president could face questions about north korea, sam nunberg flip-flopping with his cooperation. i'm dana perino and this is "the daily briefing". north korea opens the door to talks with washington after kim jong-un met with south korean officials. the two countries released a statement saying kim would be willing to give up his nukes for security guarantees. rex tillerson is keeping the pressure on north korea. >> north korea threatens the

entitle global community for it's bob mueller programs and proliferation activities, including its arm exports to africa. doesn't just involve our allies in europe or asia. it doesn't just include countries with longstanding ties with countries like china and russia. this is and must be a global effort. >> dana: ian bremer is the president and the founder of the eurasia group and walked the last few blocks here to be on time because there's traffic in new york. so you know a lot about this topic. you've followed it for years. do you remember in 2009 robert gates said i'm tired of buying the same horse twice regarding the negotiations with north korea. is this like buying the horse three times? things are different now. >> they have more capability. the fact that the headline is they're prepared to talk about giving up nukes -- i don't think anybody is really believing

that. but they're at the table. they just announced there's north korea and south korea summit. that means president moon and kim jong-un. that's a big deal. the fact that they have been driven to the table and are proactively saying they're prepared to suspend tests of icbms and nuclear weapons came in part because the chinese are squeezing harder. the trump administration has tone something here. >> you tweeted this morning, i like this, the pluses and the minuses. i think we have that to pull together. you said pluses about these talks would be tougher sanctions from china, north korea more willing to talk and a greater chance of a break through and the minuses are south korea, less aligned with the u.s., north korea more committed to prove a deterrent and greater chance of war. i wanted to ask you about that. south korea less aligned with the united states. >> yes. >> dana: i was reading this morning, one of the things i'm

curious about is, for example, would south korea try to pressure the united states to no longer hold our military exercises if its bothering the north koreans? >> they're joint exercises. the south koreans have to sign up for them. if they don't want to hold them, we're not doing it. the south koreans have said we're accepting a summit with north korea. i don't think that's been discussed at the highest levels in the united states. i don't think the united states gave them the official go-ahead. on several occasions, we've seen the south koreans move ahead on negotiations and engagement with pyongyang that the americans would have not supported if they had been asking us for permission. so definitely the south koreans are feeling a lot of pressure. they don't like trump's policy. the potential for wave is on them, not the united states if things get bad. so they want peace, absolutely. >> dana: so the president's stated goal is we will not accept a nuclear north korea. >> correct.

>> dana: as you said, nobody thinks that the north koreans are going to give that up now. >> it's not a new policy. obama's policy -- >> dana: things are different is that they are a nuclear power. >> they were under obama, too. acceptance. does it have to be from within? we're prepared to like kind of live with it even though we're not we're not accepting it. it's okay from a north korean perspective. the real issue here -- >> dana: if i can show could u you -- the subject that is likely to come up with these two, north korea? >> good question. there will be questions from the press. it's big news today. i don't think that the europeans are playing any role. the russians are irrelevant. >> dana: is that smart for europe? >> it's the russians, the japanese, the south koreans, the chinese and the americans. those are the powers that have

some strategic equities at play in north korea. the europeans have lots of other problems. >> dana: it's possible in this meeting the president has with the swedish prime minister, they will talk about the other subject, the potential tariffs. >> absolutely. >> dana: let me pull up what speaker paul ryan said earlier today. listen to this. >> we want to make sure abusers are held to account, especially china when it comes to dumping. we want too make sure every step forward doesn't create unintended consequences. we want to make sure it's done prudently. >> dana: on the heels of that, secretary mnuchin said this. >> on the steel and aluminum tariffs, we're trying to balance protecting these industries, which are very important with making sure that we don't do undue harm to the economy. the extent that we're successful in renegotiating nafta, those tariffs won't apply to mexico and canada. >> dana: so from my perspective,

following this closely, they're all over the map. yesterday it was there were no exceptions for allies like canada and mexico. today there might be if they can renegotiate nafta. where do you think this will shake out? >> and for corporations, too. if we go ahead with what trump is tweeting and suggesting on the 25 for steel and 10 for aluminum, the chinese, the europeans and the canadians will be opposing the united states at the wto. we should not want that. we should not be facilitating our major antagonists in the world, the chinese, and our allies to be getting together without us. that's a bad idea. >> dana: is that a geo political standpoint for allies or both? >> both. that's why everyone around trump that understands the economy on the republican side is trying to tell trump don't do this. the "wall street journal" this weekend said this would be the stupidest move --

>> dana: they have done that every day. you he had an op-ed in "the washington post" and you talked about this being a zero sum game. >> that's correct. i don't think that trump's bite is going to be as bad as his bark ultimately. they will end up in a more compromised position where trump can say i'm tougher on trade than my predecessors, but he's not going to get the blow back he would have. >> thanks, ian. thanks for walking the last few blocks. >> my pleasure. >> dana: former trump aide sam nunberg said he will cooperate with robert mueller. forget about his erratic behavior. who cares. nunberg said that trump was aware of the meeting with trump jr. and a group of russians in 2016. listen. >> do you think -- if president said he knew nothing about the meetings, you think that true? >> no. >> you don't think that is true? >> no. it doesn't -- jake, i've watched your news reports.

you know it's not true. he talked about it a week before. i don't know why he did this. all he has to say, yeah, we met with the russians. they offered us some things. we thought they had something. that was it. i don't know why he went around trying to hide it. >> james trustee joins me now. nunberg has already talked to the grand jury. now he comes out in this bizarre series of media interviews. is he doing -- hurting his case more than he is possibly trying to damage president trump but acting erratically and saying something that seems to be add odds with what we know so far? >> yeah, he's not helping himself. it's really not exactly a pillar of client control going on by his attorney right now. i think he's gone in and talked to mueller's team informally as opposed to going to the grand

jury before. that makes it hard to stand up and protest now and have this kind of public meltdown and tantrum regarding cooperation with the grand jury. he's coming off as an angry 13-year-old kid. it's not going to play out well for him to publicly bashing the process and the president at the same time. >> dana: so he would still have a fifth amount right. you could be held in civil contempt. can you explain that? >> sure. if you appeared in front of the grand jury, you're under oath. you ask questions that tend to incriminate yourself. i don't think there's any real sense that there's liability or potential liability for mrmr. 9 mr. nunberg here. the fact that he talked to team mueller before might even lead to a finding that he waived any fifth amendment privilege.

he probably can't stop the bus from moving forward on the fifth amendment. if he chose to fight it and it was a roller coaster yesterday, but if he chose to fight it saying i'm not going to testify about anything, then he would be dragged before a grand jury judge, a judge who is responsible or the grand your proceedings, warned that he could end up in jail for not cooperating and asserting a valid privilege. and they he could be locked up like judy miller was for not showing a source years ago. >> dana: i remember that well. >> like in law school, they say you hold the key to your own cell. it's a corrective measure, not punitive. you can let yourself out by cooperating and going in front of the grand jury and asking the question. >> dana: i'll switch topics with you. there's going to be potentially another call for a special counsel looking at the fisa process and what happened in the

carter page application in 2015, if not before. let me ask you something. who would appoint such a special counsel? how does one decide who gets it? >> right. i mean, that's a completely mysterious process. there's a political component to all of this that i'm not addressing. i'm focusing on the procedure and mechanics of it. the independent counsel, no matter how much people call for it, it has to be a creature that comes out of the executive branch. means the a.g. a and the acting a.g. for all things russia, rod rosenstein. how that make that opaque to anyone -- i don't know there's a checklist that they're supposed to consider. obviously they look for somebody who has experience, has credibility, a certain gravitas. if they go down this road as an independent counsel, their findings, whether they're indict or nonindict will be respected. >> dana: assuming they have to find something that could be

trusted by all sides as you are, james trustee. >> don't put me in that box. >> dana: we'll take your name out of the running. >> thanks. >> dana: the president and the white house are divided on tariffs. the president is moving forward even though there's a new push to change his mind. a former russian spy is found critically i'll with his daughter. were they poisoned? >> there was a couple, an older guy and younger girl. look like she passed out maybe. he was doing some strange hand movements. looked like they had been takening something quite strong.

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were found slumped on a bunch. sergei skripal and his daughter, yulia were found. skripal was accused of naming russian agents to mi-6. he was later freed in a russian spy swap in 2010. many things he was poisoned. >> if things turn out like we think, i think we will have to have a serious conversation with russia. >> mr. skripal had been poisoned because he took part in possibly criminal illegal operations. it's a usual theme. >> dana: the incident echos the case of russian dissidents that died in london in 2006 after

drinking tea laced with radio active material. some republicans are pushing back against trade tariffs calling on president trump to change course. orrin hatch and rob portman saying why they're against the president's plan. >> they know my feelings. the president is very innovative. and i don't agree with him on this tariff -- these tariff hikes. i think it's going to wind up being extra costs for the american people. i'm very concerned about that. >> i think it should be more targeted. it ought to be focused on particular products and particular countries and not so broad-based. we ought to use more of a scalpel approach. >> dana: joining me is steve dane from montana. i wanted to ask you about an agricultural state when it comes to these nafta negotiations. i come from wyoming. i understand there's a lot of exporting that can be done from

those types of states. how are you keeping tabs on what is about to happen on this tariff issue? >> it's a concern. if a trade war were to escalate, the first people to get hurt are typically farmers and ranchers. agriculture is montana's number 1 driver. we live in a global economy. 95% of the world's consumers are outside of the united states. the losers would be farmers and ranches. they feed our nation and the world. i agree with senator portman. use a scalpel to protect american jobs. these tariffs can result in unintended consequences, the farmers and ranchers. >> dana: like we said, nothing is final and everybody is making their case. you're on the energy community. it's remarkable that by 2023, the president could be the top

oil producer in the world. that does that mean for the future of our independence and our ability to maintain our super power status in the world? >> well, it has significant implications. first of all, economically, the ability to keep stability and energy prices and have control of our future is very important for our economic security. but for our national security, the fact that we're moving from energy independence to global energy dominant, taken that away from the middle east has profound implications for our country and the world. let the good guys be the leading producers in oil and natural gas. this is a very good thing for our country. i'm grateful to see what is going on as we're becoming the leading producers in oils and liquids. >> dana: sure does change the politics. and the gun bill status. i know you're a part of a bipartisan legislation or trying to see what you can do. florida's state senate had a gun

control bill that passed by a 20-18 vote. it raises the age restrictions, bans purchase and possession of bump stocks, set as three-day waiting period to buy any gun, including rifles and shotguns and $400 million for mental health services and school safety programs. i wondered where you think things stand right now. a lot of people think it's not going anywhere. is there a report on that? >> it's important we focus on solutions that will keep our schools safer versus feel-good action by politics that won't result in safer schools. it's more dangerous. gets parents and students a false sense of hope and safety and security. we need to focus on securing our schools. perimeter security. number 2, ensuring that we're stopping these shooters in the first place. we had plenty of opportunities in parkland, florida to stop

nikolas cruz. in montana two week ago, a young man posted on social media he was going shoot up a school. the students and the teachers acted and engaged local law enforcement. the sheriff arrested him and charged him with a felony and maybe prevented another school shooting. that's where we need to put the focus. the focus on the suicidal homicidal young people and securing our schools so if they do decide to act, they can't get past the front gate. >> dana: important way to do it. senator steve dane, thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: so do you remember filling this out? some changes could be coming to the census form and how that may impact you. a deal ending the nine-day teacher strike in west virginia. what the state is offering to get teachers back in the classroom. patrick woke up with a sore back.

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>> dana: fox's alert. trump meeting with sweden's prime minister. let's listen in. >> we have come a long way at least restohetorrhetorically. it would be a great thing for north korea, south korea and the peninsula. we'll see what happens. we have been in a situation that should have been handled for a long time. for many, many years this should have been taken care of. but we'll get it done. >> you believe the north koreans are prepared -- >> we're going to see. they seem to be acting positively. we'll see. we'll know. i'm willing to go as you probably noticed this morning

where we sent out through social media statement, willing to go either way. hopefully the proper way. the proper way is the way that everybody knows and everybody wants. but we're prepared to go either way. i think their statement and the statements coming out of south korea and north korea have been very positive. that would be a great thing for the world. great thing for the world. we'll see how it comes about. i will say this: we've been given tremendous credit because the olympics was not going well, and when they came in out of the blue and they said we would love to participate in the olympics, made the olympics very successful. president moon of south korea was very generous in his statements as to the fact that we had a lot to do with that, if not everything. had a lot to do with it. the olympics were beautiful. they were really very successful. as you know, they weren't looking that way prior to. so i thought north korea was terrific. they came out, they went in to

the olympics, they went in with good spirit, did well. let's see if we can carry it over. we may carry it over, may not. very -- it's a very tenuous situation. going to be very interesting to see what happens. >> you sound more optimistic. >> i'd like to be optimistic. i think maybe this has gone further than anyone has taken it before. nobody has been in the position. this should have been handled long ago. should have been handled over many years by many different administrations. not now. this was not the right time to handle it. but these are the cards we were dealt. we're handling it properly. again, as i said, hopefully we'll go in the very peaceful beautiful path. we're prepared to go whichever path is necessary. i think we're having very good dialogue. you're going to find out soon what is happening. we have made progress.

there's no question about it. >> are you willing to meet kim jong-un? >> let's see what happens. >> if they breach any tests -- >> we'll see what happens. we're not going to talk about things that we don't know yet. we had very get dialogue. you've heard that before. so far whether you look at the clinton administration or the bush administration or the obama administration, it never worked out. that was the time to have settled this problem. not now. but we're settling it. we're going to do something. one way or the other we have to do something. we cannot let that situation fester. we cannot let it happen. >> is there anything -- >> we're going to see what happens. i don't want to talk about it. >> [question inaudible] >> sweden will always be helpful. sweden has been helpful in the past. they were very helpful recently with respect to something else.

they are a great friend and a very competent friend. >> you said sweden was helpful with something. >> excuse me? >> [question inaudible] >> i do know that. a lot of people know that. a lot of people know that. thanks very much. see you later. thank you very much. >> dana: that's president trump and the swedish prime minister talking about north korea. a formal meeting. the president will have a chance to take questions from reporters at 3:30 today, which fox will bring to you live on north korea. what he's doing there is leaving himself a lot of room. he's optimistic and skeptical, which is good and healthy with regards to north korea. we'll see what happens regarding these talks. he's being quite positive. his secretary of state trying to be more of the heavy guy. i think that has served him well so far. be sure to stay tuned until

3:30. we'll have dan henninger from the wall street journal coming up. we'll talk to him about that in a few minutes. so now, should the census ask everyone living in america whether they're a citizen? the trump administration has until the end of this month to decide if the illegal immigrant question will be included on a 2020 census. william la jeunesse is live with more. this is not without controversy. >> are you a citizen? democrats will not answer it and not filling out the census and robbing blue states of political power. >> hello. i'm elizabeth. >> are you hear legally or not? a simple question but should it be in the next census? >> the census is not just a head count. it a snapshot of america. we have good reasons to know who is here. >> adding a citizenship question

for 2020 will make -- will probably make the census less accurate because more people will have fear of filling out the form. >> every decade the federal government conduct as census. prior to 1950, the immigration question was standard. attempts by the trump administration to revive it have some crying foul. >> no one should go uncounted. nobody should be invisible. >> inaccurate will be counter productive. >> the census determines how many congressional seats each state receives and how washington allocates billions in federal funds. >> the question is whether we should include people in the country illegally for the purpose of allocating representation. the answer to that is no, we should not. >> counting illegal immigrants awards them influence and money they don't deserve argue immigration opponents.

others say asking the questions creates fear and robbing only states of money they deserve. >> so this is a boring story, but dana, it's an important one. one in six households are asked that citizen question. the doj says they need it on the full census for more accurate account. the commerce department has until the and of the month to decide. >> dana: i don't think it's boring. i think it's interesting. thanks. appreciate it. you love that sound. the first primary of the 2018 mid-terms underway right now in texas with all eyes on the race that challenge republican senator ted cruz. democratic turnout has been very high in early voting. one candidate, congressman beta o'rourke raising big bucks. casey stegall is live in dallas with more. >> i'm not going to claim to have a boring story here. you talked about early voting numbers. there's something very unusual happening here in texas. the political analysts tell us that when you look at the early voting tallies, that's one

indicator. prior to the polls opening today, look at this. the number of democratic early voters, it about doubled from four years ago while gop turnout rose 16, 17%. o'rourke will likely challenge ted cruz for his senate seat has been gaining traction through a widespread grass-roots campaign criss-crossing texas. >> someone at the town hall meeting we held showed me a picture of their dead with l.b.j. in 1948 and said this was the last time that a u.s. senate candidate from texas from either party had shown up in our city to listen to the people in archer city. >> republican incumbent ted cruz is blaming the liberals disdain for president trump for this blue surge in red texas. he had this explanation for how

congressman oh research writes in more campaign contributions both at the end of last year and so far for the beginning of 2018. >> you're right. my opponent is raising a ton of money. doesn't hurt that chuck schumer came to texas and they would love to see the state of texas have an anti gun big government pro-am nesty liberal democrat represent it. >> the odds are still in favor of senator cruz winning re-election come the general. but analysts are closely watching a number of state races and also some congressional races because dana, you have 25 democrats in this state in contested primaries. that's the first time we've had that kind of a number since the early 90s here in texas. so some stuff is going on and analysts are watching it closely saying voters may be sending a message here.

back to you. >> thank you. >> dana: more on this now, the president and ceo of squared communications, senator maria cantwell. michael, democrats have said for years they believe they could become competitive in texas. they always fall short. could the tide be turning there? >> i think so. i think you've seen some green shoots here. for the first time, we've fielded candidates in every congressional district in texas, all 36 of them. in early voting, they have shown 50,000 more democrats. so there's an energy that looks very good for early march. >> senator cruz said that a lot of this democratic turnout is because democrats hate trump. but that's going to get the democrats to the polls in bigger numbers than i guess they go with that. >> yeah. turnout is turnout.

so i think it's a mistake for republicans to try to poo-poo the energy that is on the left right now. there's no denying it. it's a reality. we're seeing it across the country. if republican voters don't wake up and get engaged, there will be a wave, period. if the generic ballot gets closer, these a good thing for republicans. but intensity matters immensely. i think right now we're looking at a role reversal from 2010 to 2018 between the two parties. a lot of similarities. the gop needs to be aware of it. >> michael, you said yesterday on this show, we broke some news. the fox power move moved the senate racing to likely gop to lean gop. the democrats are not without problems in texas. casey stegall alluded to it. in some of these cases, there's so many democrats running that they're drowning each other out and certainly trying to pull the party much further left than you

would think is smart to run races in some places like texas. >> i think you saw in the clip that senator cruz will run the play of chuck schumer, guns, anti-immigration play. that plays well in texas. the democrats -- hillary clinton ran closer to trump in texas than she did in iowa. in the last 80 elections that we had since donald trump was inaugurated, the president has run ahead of the republican. if that trend holds true in texas, we're going to pick up some seats here. in one in four seats are own. if we can steal four or five way, it will go a long way. >> dana: another state we're talking about, senator thad cochran of mississippi says he will retire april 1. he's not well. so the governor is going to appoint somebody. >> that's right. >> dana: and that person has to

run again. they would serve until january of 2021. likely a same republican seat what do you think will happen there? >> very safe. just like alabama. >> dana: a good point. >> what i would point out, the governor is very popular, governor bryant. there's some rumblings that he might appoint himself, which would make that seat impossible for the democrats to get. keep in mind, another mississippi senate race going on as well. so both seats will be up and decided in 2018 in mississippi. republicans -- this is a state that donald trump won by nearly 20 points. the only way democrats can pull off basically an alabama again, a big upset there, if republicans are hopelessly divided and if the republican party nominates a bad candidate like with roy moore. they should look heavily at avoiding that.

>> dana: and what will happen in mississippi? >> yeah, we had the bannon wing of the party against the mcconnell wing, going after strange, the appointed senator. i don't know if you can have that same cauldron of activities. now the republicans have to pay attention. they have to defend one more seat than they knew of. >> dana: thanks for joining me today. >> thanks. >> dana: we're keeping a close eye on pennsylvania where a week from now, voters will cast their bottle lots in a key special election. the 18th congressional district race between democrat connor lamb and republican rick saccone is now considered a toss-up. molly line is live in pittsburgh. molly? >> that's right. from the big money to the big names, both parties are putting a lot of effort in this race. a neck and neck race determined to be a toss-up. one week to go. so both candidates have been doing a lot of retail

politicking. democrats home connor lamb will score an upset in this district that president trump took by 16 points, winning a seat that has been hold by the gop for 15 years. lamb a marine corps veteran will welcome pennsylvania native and former vice president joe biden to the trail very shortly this afternoon. president trump made a stop in the district in january. he has already announced his own aspirations and will be returning for a big campaign rally. he's previously given his backing to rick saccone, a state rep and air force veteran, who is among the president's most ardent and open supporters. saccone is elated that mr. trump is stopping in town and backing the president on many fronts from supporting coal to arming teachers. lamb has managed to out-raisa cone in the early months about 4

to 1. >> dana: thanks, molly. you're in a great city in pittsburgh. thank you. a last-ditch effort to blunt the efforts of president trump's tariffs. what lawmakers are doing to head off a trade war. >> all things being equal, aim free trader that doesn't mean we're not being taken advantage of by some countries, including china.

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reporters will have a chance to ask the president at the news conference. we'll have that live on "shepard smith reporting." >> dana: white house economic adviser gary cohn may be taking the lead in a last ditch effort to stop president trump from imposing steep tariffs on aluminum and steel tariffs. cohn is organizing a meeting with the president and companies that depend on the products. dozens in congress are speaking out about the tariffs. let's bring in daniel henninger. let's to mitch mcconnell that said this. >> i think there's a lot of concern this might kickoff something much more substantial. there's been some discussion about linkage to nafta. i'd say from a kentucky point of view, nafta has been a big winner. >> dan, i think this is one of the first time we've seen in the past year, there's a crowd

sourcing of policy time in trying to get the president's attention to change his mind a certain way. how do you think it will shape out? >> this looks like something we've seen before and recently. the dynamics taking place around tariff and trade look like what we just went through with the immigration daca issue and after that gun control. the president got everybody around a table for immigration and he did the same thing about gun control. he said it's simple. put a bill on my desk and i'll sign it. everybody goes away. guess what they discover? it's complicated. it's politics. that's what we're finding out here with this tariff announcement last week of 25% on steel, 10% on aluminum. well, it's very complicated. the graphic you just put up of all the republican members of congress undoubtedly represent individual districts and states that will be adversely affected by this.

the president now has to work his way through all of the details of what he announced last week. >> dana: the "wall street journal" has said that saturday, monday and tuesday. what i take it from it, it's not that you're against the president or you don't want the president to succeed. you want the president to succeed and worried this could hurt the good economic news he's been having. >> that's right, dana. we've been talking about the mid-terms in november. i took a close look at the mid-terms. typically the party in power loses a lot of seats. the republicans cannot lose more than 24 in the house. in my look into it, there was only one issue that managed to mitigate the losses in the house in a mid-term election. that's a very strong economy. reagan 2, clinton 2 and george w. 2. all three minimized their losses in the house.

the republicans are worried that the narrative of the strong economy is being disrupted by the complexities of taxes and tariffs. that's the concern. >> dana: so the president spoke about north korea. he's going to have more comments at 3:30 with a press conference with the prime minister of sweden. i wanted to play something from this morning. john bolton, familiar to the fox audience, he's skeptical about the possibility of talks between north korea and south korea and bringing america into it. listen to what he said. >> i will bet you a dollar just as we're sitting here today you'll hear almost immediately the united states has to contribute to the atmosphere, we've got to show good faith, let's prime the pump. all of which is code take for concessions. if that comes, you can count on this. north korea will get deliverable nuclear weapons before the end of the year. >> dana: dan, we know what the sticks are. sanctions or maybe military

actions. what is unclear, what the carrots are at this point. i think that's what john bolton is saying. we should be concerned here. >> we should be concerned. this is one issue in which its pretty clear that president trump understands the liabilities here of negotiating with the north koreans. he's entirely correct. we have done this many times in the past. yet we have come up to the point where the north koreans have an intercontinental ballistic missile and a hydrogen bomb. the question is he going to negotiate on standard terms or in my view, nothing wrong with talking so long as the strategy of maximum pressure is sustaineded. just announced some very strong sanctions in the past week or so. i think what the trump presidency ought to do is say we'll talk to you, but we're not pulling back at all on our strategy here. if you're serious, you'll take us seriously and come to a resoluti

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from 62 ex-felons. the spring is two weeks away. winter is not going down without a fight. the northeast braces for another big storm in areas still cleaning up from last friday's nor'easter. from massachusetts to virginia, tens of thousands are still without power. meteorologist adam klotz is checking this storm. i think of my mom in colorado. there's no powder or snow. >> a bench of fresh powder, heavy snow moving to new england tomorrow. we're waiting for the system to come together off the coast right now. you're not seeing a lot right there. the low is forming today and affecting us tomorrow morning. as you can see, will do some widespread damage. everything in the pink is a warning from philadelphia to new york, boston, portland, maine. big coastal cities that will get

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that happened to be our class period. my son is a freshman who had been in that building earlier that day for two classes. >> the band was one of six nationwide selected for the concert. good luck to them. thanks for joining us, here's shep. shg it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 at the white house. president trump is set to hold a news sfrans during this news hour, it comings as he blasts democrats over immigration deshgs nies there's any chaos in his administration. still, the president says more people may be on the way out. and he's pushing for new import taxes as fellow republicans object. >> we think the proper approach is a surge skal approach to not have unintended consequences. >> shepard: can the house speaker get the president to agree? there's word today that north korea is offering to hold talks with the united states and stop testing nukes. of course we do not yet know whether the dictator kim jong-un is serious.